I think that in the last 30 or 40 years people have relentlessly been fed racist bullshit, only it's been portrayed as anti-Racism.

So "Jews this", "Jews that", only it's all things that paint all members of that specific etnicity in a good light like "they're victims", "were oppressed", "have Western Values" and so on, hence it's sold as "the opposite of Racism" because it's says good things about the character of all individuals of an etnicity rather than bad things.

However all that shit is still the very same "people from etnicity X are all the same" mindset as the Nazis had: the core Prejudice that millions of people can just be reduced to members of a Race and treated as if they're all the same is no different in Nazism from that in Liberal politics.

Hence the surprise when Israel - the self-proclaimed "Jewish Nation" and representative of all "Jews" - turns out to not at all act as "victims" or "opprossed", and instead act as the very opposite, victimizing and oppressing others to such extremes that they're at the same level of depravation as those of the Nazis themselves.

All this to say that people need to try and overcome the brainwashing by spotting when their own thoughts, judgments and conclusions are anchored on racial-prejudice, even when said prejudice might be oriented in a direction which seems "positive" - most such "surprises" as when the "Jewish Nation" turns out to be the latest variant of the Nazis aren't at all surprising when you stop thinking "Jews are X, Y and Z" and instead just think of people as being people, which means that some when they get power combined with de facto immunity for their actions act in the most horrid of ways and the majority around them will just go along with it and even convince themselves of the most extraordinary justifications (in the case of Israel that being extremely racist takes on Palestinians and Arabs in general) for why the actions they're going along with are the right thing to do.

Yeah, runs on Linux fine (my experience was running it from Steam), looks good and is defintelly a shooter.

Turns out it's not really my kind of game because it's a succession of set-pieces (a sequence of fully fledged 3D areas were player progression is mostly linear) but for those more into the shooting and less into exploring or building angles it should be good fun as it's definitely all about the shooting your way through enemy strongpoints (not really about defending from enemy waves).

He was always a "lie, lie and lie until you make it" kind of guy, it's just that in the last couple of years he's been doing it widely enough and long enough that the real results of enough of his lies came though and enough people started suspecting his words and looking at them more carefully and spotting the lying early.

As the saying goes, "you can deceive some people all of the time or all people some of the time, but you can't deceive all people all of the time" - and at some point, when he became more widely known, he seems to have gone from the first mode to the second and by now he's run out of time.

Worry not: they'll still pollute because the tires running on the road release micro-particle, a problem which EVs didn't solve and which the tendency for bigger cars, which is unrelated to EV adoption but has been happening in parallel, makes worse.

Mind you, EVs are much better, but cars are still a problem on the pollution front (and the danger for people front, and the stealing of natural public spaces to put roads on front, and on the making most of the public space dangerous for children to play in front and so on).

Having worked in similar business environments, I could feel the pain and the deep, deep (oh, so, so very deep) frustration seeping from the post.

Or maybe I was just projecting.

Guy justifying White Colonialism with some fable about his race having a right to the land.

Every single colonialist movement that steals land fmro the natives and mass murders them has bullshit like this, all the way back to when the English stole the land from the natives and started calling themselves Americans.

It turns out their power elites never ditched the foundational mindset that gave birth to and underpinned Nazism - that above all else Race defines how people should be treated - hence they're supporting a Genocide being commited by extreme Racists and well on it's way to a new Holocaust, with the only justification for that support being the dominant ethnicity of the nation commmiting it.

Unsurprisingly, in that moral swamp the AfD is finding it easy to grow since they're just support doing "for our race" the widespread and widely accepted political view in Germany that people should be treated differently according to their race and some races should be treated better than others (a view which has now been shown to be supported all the way to the extreme situation of maintaining unwavering support of a nation pretty much going full on Nazi on the ethnicity they deem "human animals", because that nation claims to represent the Jewish ethnicity)

And let's not forget their "Western Values".

I blame all those who have been putting pineapple in pizza for waking up the wrath of the Gods.

The places I know were they do cook stuff using volcanic heat (in Peru and the Azores islands which are part of Portugal) they do it by digging a hole in an area were the ground is hot from volcanic heat and putting a pan cooking in it (they cover it all to keep the heat).

So it's more a local technique for cooking for free that then evolved into a couple of traditional dishes.

Never heard of trying to roast stuff on the output of a geyser.

The amount of effort to obtain the female-impressing rock by the crow is far less than by the human, thus indicating that the crow is the wisest of the two.

You fight the Discrimination by going after every situation of discrimination, punishing the individual offenders and compensating the individual victims.

What you don't do is to carry on Discriminating on the very same visible human characteristics but change the beneficiary groups and call it "positive".

By defending differentiated treatment based on people's genetics (the very same genetic traits that Racists use, no less) you're supporting the very foundation of Racism and every far-right ideology in existence including Nazism.

You're parroting shit you haven't really pondered over and doing so with maximum emotionality and minimal rationaly, in practice defending methods which de facto prolong the very thing you claim to want to stop.

Also, why exactly are you avoiding the point I made about the greatest Discrimination being Wealth Discrimination and fighting that will do a lot more to correct the baked in problems of other kinds of discrimination - what you in perfect political-parrot way mention using the 100% parroted expression "brutal oppression" - than your Descrimination-preserving method?

I'm in a leftwing political party were I live and you sound exactly like the stupid kids who swallowed the neoliberal bullshit and think they're being lefties whilst promoting the far-right way of seeing people, up to and including the raging slogan spewing when confronted with rational analysis of the very neoliberal-think-tank-invented "equality" methods they've learned without questioning.

Meat eating is actually a very cultural thing.

In India, for example, there is an area where most people are vegetarian and have been so for centuries.

My point about how people are psychologically pushed to consume also applies here.

Further, excessive meat eating (and the average meat consumption in most Western countries is at those levels) is actually bad for one's health and life expectancy, so even from a pure individual selfishness point of view people aren't doing what's best for themselves, which would indicate there's more to it than merelly individuals being selfish.

That said, I agree that people should eat less meat, it's just the expectation that they're informed enough (at various levels) to do it that I find unrealistic.

It's another of those things which in order to change needs to be pushed as education to all of society, while what we really have is massive economic interests pushing in the very opposite direction.

A guy wearing it properly wears it with no underwear, which given the temperatures up there in Scotland means he's quite literally a man with cold hard balls.

I once got told off by a woman in The Netherlands (to were I had immigrated from my native Portugal) for holding the door open for her and had to explain that it wasn't for her, it was because it made me feel good to be helpful and I did it for both men and women (if you've already gone to the trouble of openning the door, might as well keep it open for somebody who is just behind you).

I just found it funny how a cultural habit from somewhere else that wasn't even gender specific got interpreted as macho posturing.

Traditionally, societal opionions of how a woman should be involved her making herself appealing to men before married and submissive to her husband afterwards.

I would even say that "a man needs to feel like a man" and "a woman needs to feel like a woman" are two sides of the same original coin - it's just that in modern days the latter is frowned upon much more (though, sadly, a lot of people still go around with an interiorized version of it) than the former.

That's the perfect answer, IMHO.

More in general, it's not up to others to change the way they act to feed somebody else's self-delusions of having some kind of quality they do not have.

I've actually had to deal with something somewhat parallel to this when I moved from The Netherlands (whose people are known for being blunt) to Britain (were everything is sugarcoated and people are evasive, the higher the social class the worst it gets) and then proceeded to go around unknowingly insulting just about every insecure person I met in that place by giving them my blunt opinion on what they cared about, without evasiveness or sugarcoating.

The balance I found was to stop giving my opinion unless asked and if asked by somebody who didn't know my ways yet, give them a notice ("I used to live in The Netherlands so just point out ways in which things can be improved, but that doesn't mean I think they're bad") and then proceed to give them my blunt opinion.

Certainly that goes a long way to explain why so many think LLMs are actually intelligent.

Have you somehow missed just how car-centric just about everything is? I mean, most public space out there is taken by roads and public transport is generally insufficient.

Granted, there are much better countries in this than others.

Ditto on other things imposed on people such as planed obsolence: Can you still buy a fridge that will last you a lifetime? Does your 15 year old original iPhone still work well? How many of the electronics out there are not repairable?

Then there's all the pressure to make people consume, using techniques from Psychology (you can go read all about how the nephew of Freud introduced into Marketing techniques from Psychology back in the 50s). Absolutelly, people should be stronger and wiser than that, but most are not and just claiming that "it's people's fault" when others take adavantage of natural human weaknesses is just victim blaming.

Absolutelly, Consumerism is a big part of the problem and it's a lot down to individuals to do less of it, but lets not deceive ourselves that the environment we're all in not only promotes it massivelly and relentlessly, but plenty of decisions which were taken for us by others mean individuals often don't even have a choice not to buy new junk or ride a personal-polution-device, and in Capitalism those decisions were taken mainly by large Companies directly or by the politicians they bought.

Funny how the new age racists trying to pass themselves as leftwing can't stop themselves from grouping people based on the genetics they were born with, just like the far-right.

No, "they" are not "all the same" and shouldn't be treated as if they were.

The way you solve baked poverty from past discrimination is by solving the problems of Poverty, baked or otherwise, which is how a true leftwinger would go after it: you go after the greatest pain and removed it, guided only in the choice of which to go after first by its intensity (as that's how you maximize the good you do) you don't go around deeming every individual with the "right" genetics worthy of support no matter how little pain that specific individual is under and every individual with the "wrong" genetics not worthy of support no matter how much pain that specific individual is under.

For example, make sure the best schools are in the poorest neighborhoods and all of the sudden all the poor kids there have the best chances, and that includes the ones whose poverty is the product of past racial discrimination - breaking the cycle of poverty for all those kids will do a lot more good than a few quotas for only people with the right genetics in places that only help the middle-class.

(By the way, this is actually one of the strongest arguments for there not to be Private Education: so that money can't buy greater life chances for the scions of those who are already better of and the State can channel more educational resources to were it's needed the most)

The only reason to not go after wealth discrimination in general in Capitalism and instead doing very limited measures for only those with the right genetics, is to protect the Wealthy and Capitalism, which is the very opposite of being a Leftie, which is why you Neoliberals love this "lets not go after wealth discrimination which is the main method to transform other kinds of discrimination into lifelong pain and instead let's do symbolic middle-class helping measures based on the genetics people are born with" shit.

You see, you're the one doing the mindless parroting of neoliberal "solutions" fashionable in middle class circles and I'm the one who has been thinking about and guided by, for decades, the core leftwing principle of "the greatest good for the greatest number" rather than adopting unquestioningly some prepackaged ideological tidbits that are popular in my social circle.